If your Italian ancestor (nor any other in the line of descent up to you) did not renounce their Italian citizenship, you have the right to carry out the citizenship recognition process.

Not necessarily. You're going to need to know what date it was done. Every child of a naturalized Italian who was born prior to the date of naturalization, along with his or her descendants, has the right to the procedure.

Yes, but it is worth mentioning that the Italian woman transmits citizenship from January 1, 1948, so attention will have to be paid to the date of birth of the children of the first Italian woman in the line of descent. If the date of birth was before 1948, recognition can only be requested through judicial means.

If you do not have the birth certificate of your Italian ancestor, just send an email to the Commune in which his birth was transcribed, requesting a multilingual copy (which will help you request the Certificate from the National Electoral Chamber). To request it you will have to send an email to the Commune informing the full name and date of birth of your ancestor, saying that you are his descendant and attaching your ID (front and back). The record can be sent digitally or physically, so you will have to declare a postal address.

There are 2 types of procedures to obtain citizenship through administrative means. One is Reconstruction, which is for those who are not direct children of an Italian, and Direct Adult Children, for those who are children of an Italian citizen. If this is your case, you will need to know if your father or mother is registered in the AIRE (Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all'Estero – Registry of Italians Resident Abroad) at the Italian Consulate that corresponds to your residence address. . If this is not the case, you will have to complete the Reconstruction procedure.

Minors cannot complete the procedure themselves and must be represented by their parents. If you are a minor child of an Italian registered with the AIRE, the latter must be the one to present your Birth Certificate to the Italian Consulate so that you can be recognized as an Italian citizen.

The AIRE is the Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all'Estero (Registry of Italians Resident Abroad). Every Italian citizen who lives outside the territory of Italy must register with AIRE to be able to process their passport or report changes in their marital status. Those who apply for citizenship at an Italian Consulate are registered with the AIRE at the time of being recognized as citizens.

The citizenship process can be carried out at the corresponding Italian Consulate according to your residence address. For example, if your residence address (the one that appears on your DNI) is in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the Consulate General of Italy in Buenos Aires corresponds to you, located at Reconquista 572 in that city. You can also carry out the procedure in Italy before the Commune where you establish residence.

Although the processing times vary depending on the Commune (for example, whether or not you have to make appointments for the different procedures to be carried out), it generally takes less time than the Reconstruction process before the Italian Consulate. In any case, the process for Direct Children of Age before the Consulate can be completed almost as quickly as the process in Italy.

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If you live in Argentina, more precisely in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (or AMBA), you are probably having a hard time getting an appointment at the Consulate General of Italy to start your citizenship process. There are different reasons that justify this. On the one hand, Argentina is the country with the most Italians outside of Italy, and it is estimated that around two-thirds of the population has at least one Italian ancestor. The number of shifts that the system supports is very few for the high existing demand. On the other hand, it is worth noting that in many cases our ancestors upon arrival did not approach the Italian Consulate to register with the AIRE, thus fulfilling their civic duty towards Italy. To be clearer, if your paternal grandfather arrived from Italy and did not register with the AIRE, then he did not register your father's birth either, so that later your father would register your birth and today you would not find yourself in the situation of getting a turn.

If you are already an Italian citizen, you are registered with the AIRE and you have minor children, you only need to present to the Consulate your marriage certificate (if any) and the birth certificates of your children translated into Italian so that they are recognized as Italians. If one of your children is over 18 years of age, they must process their citizenship as a Direct Child of Age by taking the corresponding turn.

The passport is requested online through the website of the Italian Consulate where you are registered with AIRE. If you have just received the email from the Consulate saying that your certificates were sent to the Commune then you will have to wait about 60 days, which is the estimated time for the Commune to transcribe your birth certificate and report the registration data to the Consulate. If you completed your citizenship process in Italy but left without requesting a passport, you will have to register with AIRE to be able to process your passport at the Consulate. The costs can be found on the Consulate page.